The caretaker option is legal and it was exercised last month by the Governor of Delaware, Ruth Ann Minner, when she picked a former aid of Vice-President-elect Joe Biden to succeed him as caretaker senator of Delaware.

President-elect Obama and Vice-President-elect Biden understand that we can't recover from this mess and put people back to work if we are gutting the public services that are vital to our communities.

Sending Vice-President-elect Henry Wallace to the December inauguration, was the first public demonstration of how close the Avila Camacho camp and the Roosevelt Administration had become in the struggle against pro-fascist forces.